My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.